Atenism Survives

It is a profound testimony to the power of Akhenaten and the Pharaonic position that, for a good 20 years, one man managed to carry on a religious revolution in polytheistic Egypt. Of course, after his reign ended, his son Tutankhaten, only 8, was a puppet to the remaining priests of Amun and others, and Atenism was stricken from Egyptian life.

What if this had not happened? What if the priests of Amun had been weakened enough, and the worship of Aten powerful enough, that Atenism, as the first monotheistic religion ever, survived and remained the state religion of Egypt?

Discuss.
 

Keenir

Banned
It is a profound testimony to the power of Akhenaten and the Pharaonic position that, for a good 20 years, one man managed to carry on a religious revolution in polytheistic Egypt. Of course, after his reign ended, his son Tutankhaten, only 8, was a puppet to the remaining priests of Amun and others, and Atenism was stricken from Egyptian life.

What if this had not happened? What if the priests of Amun had been weakened enough, and the worship of Aten powerful enough, that Atenism, as the first monotheistic religion ever, survived and remained the state religion of Egypt?

Discuss.

either Tut or his successors would have to return their attention to the state of the nation's borders (which had been impinged upon by all their neighbors - particularly in the Levant region.
 

Ak-84

Banned
Its argueable that it survived as modern polytheism. The Atenism and Judaism link should not be dismissed.
 
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